alt Hacker NewsEveryone's saying this is for advertising, but I don't think it is. It's so they can let ChatGPT sext with adults.
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Its for both; the loosened guardrails around sex and the advertising roll-out are both explicitly for logged-in adults, and the age prediction is how they determine the logged-in user is an “adult”.
Do you expect the data collected for age verification will be completely separate from the advertising apparatus? I would expect the incentives would align for this to enhance their advertising options.
Exactly. Advertising will drive away users unless they are slowly trained into it, which will take time, time that Open AI doesn't have.
Meanwhile, the adult market is huge and sureshot revenue from a user base that is more likely to not mind the ads.
It’s worse than that.
They want to build “the scream room” from Frank Herbert’s _The Jesus Incident_.
There is immense power to wield over someone when you know what they did in the scream room.